Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fundamentally this fear of drifting away from the medical mainstream that directs most of the plan's decisions -- including drawing the "poor line" at 20 per cent. In each of their moves, the plan's directors are conscious of a national audience. What they are trying to build is not just a plan for treating 30,000 people in Boston. Instead, they are piecing together a model that they hope can reshape medical systems all across the country...
...have been extremely careful not to put in any systems that are unique to Harvard or to the hospital centers here," Pollack said. "All our planning has been directed at getting in the mainstream...
...defeated for reelection to the Senate last year by a 38-year-old moderate who claimed to stand "more in the main-stream" of American opinion on Vietnam. The claim had at least the virtue of being true: at 82, Ernest Gruening has yet to join anyone's mainstream...
...that Oklahoma's Oral Roberts has joined the Methodist ministry and de-emphasized the curative aspects of his high-decibel revivals, Allen is probably the best-known faith healer in the nation. Although ignored by mainstream Protestant churchmen, he has a large and enthusiastic following among fundamentalist Christians in the South and Southwest. Last year alone, A. A. Allen Revivals, Inc. grossed $2,692,342-not counting the salaries of Allen and his two associate preachers, who take their cut directly from "their ministry...
...ideas in this book set Moynihan off from the "mainstream" of American liberal thought on racial matters. The first idea is that the situation of American blacks is largely similar to that of other ethnic groups which have assimilated successfully into the majority culture. One senses in this book a tone of moral disapproval towards blacks who haven't acquired the civility of the rising Irish: if the poor of today could only become as self-respecting and self-reliant as the Irish were in their day, the "racial" problem would solve itself...